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Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

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criddell · 1789561579 · focus · HN ↗
This will be great for preservation of PS2 games. Well done!
It seems like preservation of games for later consoles is a lost cause. If I pull out my PS5 30 years from now and pop in my Cyberpunk 2077 disk to play, I'm going to have a barely playable game.
It's better than nothing, I suppose, but I won't be able to re-play the excellent version that I played through last year.
1. ZenoArrow · 1789581093 · focus · HN ↗
  > but I won't be able to re-play the excellent version that I played through last year
  Why not? The future of game preservation for games not distributed on disc is probably going to be based around hard disk images, with some kind of overlay filesystem mechanism to allow choosing between different games without relying on standard installations. Will it be legal? Probably not. Will it happen? I suspect it will.

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